Red Army invasion of Armenia

Red Army invasion of Armenia
Part of the Armenian–Azerbaijani War, the Russian Civil War and the Turkish War of Independence

Red Army in Yerevan, November 1920
Date24 September – 29 November 1920
Location
Result Soviet victory
Belligerents

 Russian SFSR
 Armenian Bolsheviks
 Azerbaijan SSR


Turkey Turkish Provisional Government
First Republic of Armenia Armenia
Commanders and leaders

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail Tukhachevsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail Levandovsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Mikhail G. Yefremov


Turkey Kâzım Karabekir
First Republic of Armenia Simon Vratsian
First Republic of Armenia Alexander Khatisian

The Red Army invasion of Armenia[a] was a military campaign which was carried out by the 11th Army of Soviet Russia from September to 29 November 1920 in order to install a new Soviet government in the First Republic of Armenia, a former territory of the Russian Empire. The invasion coincided with two concurrent events, the Turkish invasion, as well as the anti-government insurrection which was staged by the local Armenian Bolsheviks in the capital, Yerevan, and other cities and populated places within the country. The invasion led to the dissolution of the First Republic of Armenia and the establishment of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic.


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